Barry Rafe
BSc. MRes. FIAA. FAICD
Summary
Barry is a financial services professional with experience as a director, CEO and consultant to significant financial services firms and superannuation funds.
Barry advises organisations and their boards on practices to enhance performance.
Barry is a Fellow of the Actuaries Institute and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Barry presents courses on board governance, finance, and strategy for the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Rafe Consulting was established in 2010 specifically to help individuals and organisations answer Socrates’ questions “What ought one to do”.
Barry has served on several for-profit and not-for-profit boards. Most recently Barry was President and chair of the Actuaries Institute and was on the board of a large not-for-profit organisation. Barry is currently on the board of a public relations and media business.
Barry has held senior consulting positions as a strategy partner at Accenture and head of the financial services practice at Trowbridge Consulting. He was a senior manager with AMP and the CEO of Mellon Bank’s Australian operations. In his consulting roles he has advised many of Australia’s largest financial services businesses on distribution and product development.
Barry also facilitates major conferences and has MC’ed various events. He has honed his skills as an MC on the stand-up-comedy stage. He has presented at various comedy clubs in Sydney and has competed in and won various rounds in the national Raw Comedy event. Barry has received acting, presentation and comedy training through the National Institute for the Dramatic Arts.